Recently, I’ve curated a number of image series by photographers from ‘Flickr’ on my blog ‘Aesthetic Investigations’. Subsequently, I thought it would be interesting to document these works in a book. Therefore, i’ve arranged a collection of ’39’ abstract and minimal photographic series by these ’32’ artists. A selection of pages from the book can be viewed below, a full book preview can be seen: HERE

“These monochrome photographs are the result of my recent return to my black & white film years, with all the experience acquired in the digital years. Back to the future, forward to the past…” Gianni Galassi

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‘signature’
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‘264’
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serie noire
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‘255’
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‘concrete jungle’
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‘265’
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Gianni Galassi’s images are focused around the relationship between light and shadow on the surfaces of urban and industrial buildings. Which leads to a set of architectural visions geometrically combined within the frame, emphasizing a whole of elements which transcend the original function of the portrayed artifact, and giving rise to unintentional aesthetic values. The square format sets a distance from the typical rectangular or panoramic frame of movies and TV. A symbol of geometrical purity, the square suggests a formal reading of the image, which is freed from any narrative intention. [Extract]

A selection of Brancolinas’ photos along with an interview is published in an article about abstract
architecture from nr.8 issue of the Ukraine’s ‘Photographer’ magazine (p. 44-45, 46-47 and 48-49).

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1. How do you symbolize architecture according to your inner vision and your philosophy ?

Architecture is the art of creating a space that acts like a shelter for various human activities, if it’s designed perfectly it looks like an inhibited sculpture. I like to associate architecture with music: the architect “composes” with building materials the material space, while the composer “constructs” the audio space by using sound vibrations, they both use rhythm as the base for their creations. Pythagoras said: “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”

2. Why do you think people like these kind of geometric abstractions? Is it coming from men’s original subconscious images of achievable perfection ?

I suppose people like to create images with perfected geometric order because the man’s mind is always striving to organize naturally chaotic reality. However, this so called ‘perfection’ needs to be spiced up with a little bit of imperfection to look attractive.

3. An architect must be a very logical person, mathematically calculating each of his pencil strokes when making a draft, thinking about functionality, practicality and the rest of all those features which would tag a person with a materialist’s label. Here comes the photographer, a modern artist, mystic by his nature and starts “humanizing” that building. With this in mind can we name architectural photographers sort of our spiritual savors with narrow specialization? What do you think about this?

To fully understand and experience the building we must get in direct contact with it and feel it from various points of view, in the same way like somebody is viewing a sculpture. Architectural photographer is essentially expressing only his feelings about the building. His impression helps the viewer to get an idea about the structure, but it is not showing it in the same faithfull and accurate way as the plan. Photography portrays and communicates an atmospheric quality for the architecture. It promotes a feeling rather than the factual formal reality, it makes an artistic impression. The atmosphere or feel of a building is very much a sensory reality and it has a perception from the man’s perspective.

This particular sequence is constructed from numerous different series of ‘FotoWorks’ by Fernando. Therefore, I would encourage anyone who is intrigued by these marvelous works to click on each individual image to view texts & tags. This will resignify the speech of each image and each series, allowing for a better understanding of context and a further appreciation of the artists original intent.